NATIONALISE BP NOW! – ‘stop tinkering at the edges’ demands Unite’s Graham
‘NATIONALISE all the energy giants,’ the Unite union demanded yesterday after BP announced enormous July-September profits of £7.1 billion, more than double the profit...
Tackle Poverty Urges Bma!
BMA DOCTORS want urgent action to tackle poverty and improve public health services after an official report found a strong connection between deprivation and...
NO CAPITULATION! – proposed deal thrown out – strikes back on!
A DEAL between the University College Union (UCU) leadership and University UK (UUK) has been thrown out and the lecturers strikes are back on! This...
Bedroom tax challenge is going ahead!
DISABLED children and adults are challenging the legality of the coalition government’s ‘bedroom tax’ and have won the right to take their cases to...
PAKISTAN BLOCKS NATO ROUTE! –after US gunship kills three Pakistani soldiers
Mounting fury over a number of NATO air strikes into Pakistani territory, yesterday saw Pakistan seal its border with Afghanistan blocking the NATO supply...
COMMERCIALISATION THREATENING FUTURE OF THE NHS – warns doctors leader
‘The government’s dogmatic and misguided plan to commercialise the NHS has gone too,’ British Medical Associatoin (BMA) Chairman of Council, Dr Hamish Meldrum warned...
Gate Gourmet taking fight into the unions
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are taking their fight for reinstatement into the trade union movement and visiting Transport and General Workers Union and other...
Angry Nurses Force Re-Call Over Wages!
NURSES’ anger over the NHS pay sell-out has forced the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to call an Emergency General Meeting in ‘late September’,...
North Kensington Workers Fighting Racism!
FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...
BMA opposes ex-Tory minister in charge of NHS!
DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday spoke out against appointing former Tory health minister Lord Prior as Chair of NHS England. Prior, who served in the Tory...
150 IRISH HOTELS TO CLOSE – as Bank of Scotland (Ireland) shuts down down
The Irish Hotel Federation (IHF) has claimed 150 hotels will be forced to close after the announcement that Bank of Scotland (Ireland) is to...
NO TUBE AND RAIL CUTS! – ‘Franchising system in its death throes’
ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...
British Gas 5,000 job cuts! – GMB has vowed to fight for every job
‘GMB will fight for every single job,’ the GMB union said, reacting yesterday to the news of yet another 5,000 job cuts at British...
Rail Fares Rise – A 2.7% Hit
MILLIONS of rail passengers will have to pay an average of 2.7% more for tickets from 2nd January, in a fare rise announced last...
POA urges TUC–‘Consider General Strike’
THE TUC General Council is meeting in Brighton at 9.00am today to discuss a resolution calling for it to consider the practicalities of a...
Tories Savage Unemployed!
The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) yesterday slammed plans by new Works and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to force five million people...
Locked-Out Gg Workers To March At Tolpuddle
‘THE Tolpuddle Martyrs were called troublemakers and were transported to Australia. ‘We were called troublemakers and sacked,’ Parmjeet Sidhu said at the Gate Gourmet locked-out...
Housing And Homeless Crisis!
THE UK is in breach of its own UN human rights commitment to provide people with adequate homes, Just Fair, a consortium of leading...
23 Russian diplomats expelled!
‘MOSCOW had no motives for poisoning former GRU Colonel Sergey Skripal and his daughter, while those who are trying to push ahead with the...
Corbyn Condemns Pm Johnson Over Customs Union
IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...
‘Smokescreen for NHS privatisation’ – Scrap the Health and Care Bill!
THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...
‘Sleeping at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin’
‘SLEEPING at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin,’ said the UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder. While addressing the UN from Rafah on Tuesday,...
GM Europe sale in crisis
General Motors is considering keeping GM Europe rather than selling it. This came after the German government pressed for Canadian auto parts maker Magna, backed...
Unemployment in Gaza rises to 52%!
THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate in the Gaza Strip sharply increased in 2018 to reach 52% compared with 44% in 2017, while in the West Bank...
Devolving Manchester is wrecking NHS
‘THESE plans for the devolution of the health budget to a Greater Manchester regional government truly lob a wrecking ball at the National Health...
TUC Special Congress December 9th – call General Strike to smash Tory anti-union...
THE TUC said yesterday it will hold a special Congress to discuss the next stage of the campaign against the Tories’ anti-strike laws. The event...
Rees-Mogg prepares to eat his Brexit words for deal
LEADER of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated yesterday that Tory PM Boris Johnson is preparing to bring back to Parliament this Saturday...
Chase Farm Support From Unite Leader
THE North-East London Council of Action Christmas picket of Chase Farm Hospital got a very warm reception yesterday for its demand to occupy to...
SPECIAL CONFERENCE – Defend every hospital
Saturday April 6th
NHS PAYMENTS! – warning from UNISON
UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, yesterday raised concerns over the consequences of introducing individual budgets outlined in yesterday’s ‘Primary and Community Care’...
RIOT POLICE ATTACK WORKERS – as Obama arrives in Athens
HUNDREDS of armed riot police (MAT) in full gear viciously attacked a militant march in Athens against the visit of US President Barack Obama...
‘Stop Pandemic Profiteering!’
‘PANDEMIC PROFITEERING has to stop’ says RMT as FirstGroup ann-ounces a £500 million shareholder payout and boasts that new National Rail Contracts will ‘support...
Blair Ducks Iraq Debate!
PREMIER Blair boycotted the House of Commons debate on Iraq yesterday in an unprecedented show of contempt for the bourgeois parliament. Before he left the...
US terror raid on Libya!
US WARPLANES launched a major airstrike in Libya early on Friday morning killing, 40 people in one hit. The terror raid was launched from the...
BAGHDAD REJECTS WALL! – as US and Iraqi puppets continue to build it
IRAQI opposition to the US plan to build a sectarian wall in a Baghdad district hardened yesterday, with street protests taking place in both...
Somerset pay battle
PRODUCTION workers at Somerset firm Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Bridgwater are to strike for three days over a ‘paltry’ pay offer. The Unite union said its...
May Day March
Monday May 1st MAY DAY MARCH
‘Labour will end austerity’ – claims McDonnell
‘AT THE heart of Jeremy’s campaign on which he has received such a huge mandate, was the rejection of austerity politics’, Labour shadow chancellor...
Only one fire engine for Hove! – warns East Sussex FBU
THERE will only be one fire engine based at Hove in East Sussex by April 2016 and just 12 firefighters to cover the whole...
‘DOING THE DIRTY WORK FOR DICTATORS’ – Blair and Clarke accused
‘Is it our intention to do the dirty work for dictatorships all over the world?’ Labour MP John Denham challenged Home Secretary Clarke yesterday. Denham...
Welsh FBU Fury Over Doubled Working Hours
The South Wales Branch of the Fire Brigades Union is organising a ballot for industrial action to fight plans by senior Brigade management to...
TUC ‘stands ready to assist FBU’ – O’Grady tells FBU conference
THE Fire Brigades Union yesterday angrily condemned the government-commissioned Knight Review of the fire service. Ex-Chief Fire Officer Ken Knight recommends privatisation and mergers, suggesting...
STRIKE ON! ‘WALSH LOOKING FOR A WAR’ – says Unite leader Woodley
British Airways cabin crew are taking three-days of strike action today, tomorrow and Monday and a further four-days strike action starting on March 27th. After...
NHS has £4bn surplus! – while hospitals are going bust
THE NHS is sitting on £4 billion of reserve cash whilst unprecedented government cuts of £20bn have doubled the number of hospitals falling into...
Ealing Hospital Workers Welcome The Occupation!
EALING Hospital staff members and patients welcomed the occupation of the entrance to the closure-threatened Maternity Unit yesterday. The occupation, to keep the unit open,...
















